Is anyone else over winter too? I miss long summer days, endless afternoons in the sun and fresh salads for pretty much every meal. Today was especially cold and I thought it would be lovely to have salad for dinner – who knows maybe summer hurries up…

In Dalmatia (the coast of Croatia) this tasty silverbeet potato dish is served in restaurants as a side option. My grandparents live in Dalmatia and my mum who grew up there makes this dish all the time. I didn’t actually like it growing up (even when visiting grandma) but when I took my husband to Croatia for the first time a few years ago we kept ordering this with our meals and it was incredible. Maybe it was something about the seaside, the sun and the atmosphere that changed my mind – I can’t get enough of it now. For me this is enough for a meal, it really doesn’t need anything added.

Oven dried tomatoes are very easy to make and the result is delicious. I had some not-quite-ripe tomatoes which were rather bland so I baked them in the oven to increase the flavour. They were still very moist after 1.5 hours of baking but the flavours were more exaggerated.

What’s better than a warm, tasty, golden morsel to warm up your rainy day! These broccoli and cauliflower medallions are my new go-to comfort food. Luckily they are packed full of veggies and not so bad for the waistline.+